Public funeral Friday for Calgary paramedic killed in Afghanistan
May 16, 2008CALGARY - A Canadian paramedic who was killed in action in Afghanistan earlier this month will be remembered by family and friends at a funeral service in Calgary on Friday.
Corp. Mike Starker died in an ambush west of Kandahar city on May 6th. Friday he will remembered at a full military funeral at the Calgary Roundup Centre, where more than three-thousand people are expected to attend. His sister, Carolyn Straub, said it was important to let the public be part of the grieving process. She said he deserves to be remembered.
Following the funeral, Cpl. Starker's body will be transported to city hall aboard a Calgary ambulance before a private interment later in the afternoon.
